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Carol Jackson

Director/Managing Editor

cjackson@wunc.org

Carol Jackson was our Director and was hired to help launch the program. Prior to working in radio, Carol was a producer for educational television and new media. She spent a number of years at Maryland Public Television. She was part of the team that won a Webby Award for the online field trip, Knowing Poe. As a producer in Boston, Carol coordinated production for the television series "Zoo Sleuth" and "Memories, Voices and Choices" - live from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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James Hand is a native of West, Texas. He often composes music outside, walking his land. However, since the deadly explosion at West Fertilizer Company in April, he says writing music has not come easily.

“I don’t think I’m able to write a song that would explain all the hurt, terror, the sorrow, the despair, the anguish, and the loss of everything,” he says.

Environment

Christine Byl spent more than ten years clearing trails and building rock walls as a seasonal worker in Glacier National and Denali National Parks. She talks with Phoebe Judge about her new book, Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods.